Etymology

From Proto-HellenicCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic#ΚΕΡΑΣ *kérats, probably remodeled from an earlier s-stem *kéras (like κᾰ́ρᾱ (kắrā), κᾰ́ρηνον (kắrēnon), κρᾱνίον (krāníon)), as preserved in e.g. κερασ-φόρος (keras-phóros, “with a horn”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ΚΕΡΑΣ *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; front of the skull; horn”);^[1] see there for more. An older etymology supposes Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-n̥t-.

Pronunciation

Noun

κέρᾰς • (kérăs) n (genitive κέρᾱτος or κέρᾰος or κέρεος or κέρως)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Ancient Greek paroxytone terms#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Ancient Greek neuter nouns#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Ancient Greek third-declension nouns#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Ancient Greek neuter nouns#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ΚΕΡΑΣ; third declension

1. horn (of an animal)
2. horn as a material, or anything made of horn, such as a bow.
3. (musicCategory:grc:Music#ΚΕΡΑΣ) horn (musical instrument)
4. arm or branch of a river
5. the side branch (either left or right) of a military array for battle.
   • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.90
6. (metonymicCategory:Ancient Greek metonyms#ΚΕΡΑΣ, horn of a powerful animal as a tool) horn used in biblical interpretation as representing a person as focus of a group for power.

References

Further reading

• “κέρας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κέρας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κέρας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κέρας in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• κέρας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κέρας”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2768 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κέρας in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • antler idem, page 32.
  • arm idem, page 40.
  • bend idem, page 73.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • bugle idem, page 103.
  • column idem, page 144.
  • flank idem, page 325.
  • fork idem, page 338.
  • horn idem, page 406.
  • reach idem, page 675.
  • wing idem, page 981.

Etymology

From Ancient GreekCategory:Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek#ΚΕΡΑΣ κέρας (kéras).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈce.ɾas/Category:Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΚΕΡΑΣ

Noun

κέρας • (kéras) n (plural κέρατα)Category:Greek lemmas#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Greek nouns#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Greek neuter nouns#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΚΕΡΑΣCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ΚΕΡΑΣ

1. (anatomyCategory:el:Anatomy#ΚΕΡΑΣ) horn
2. (musicCategory:el:Musical instruments#ΚΕΡΑΣ) horn (wind instrument)